Re: [Evolution] +cvs.2001.03.22.09.00 observations.

[Craig Longman <craigl begeek com>]

On 24 Mar 2001 10:32:45 -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> On 24 Mar 2001 15:43:45 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Even more useful: the percentage bar should show how many BYTES from the
> > total have been downloaded (in %).
>
>
> Don't know if that's possible, because the mail server may not report
> the total SIZE of the emails waiting to be downloaded; I think they just
> report the NUMBER of emails waiting to be downloaded. But I could be
> wrong.

actually, you sure can.  with pop at least ( i'm sure there's something
equivalent for imap ) you just issue a 'list' command and you get back
multiple lines of two numbers, the first is the message #, the second is
the size in octal.

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